Tenderly with You Lyrics

I don't mind the years gone by
When I think I'm getting better
I don't mind to fall so far
When I think I can get up

But I mind the anger
I have learned to acquire
And I mind the tough
I've growth to wear around like armor

I could live with out you
But I don't want to try
I could do it all alone
But what would it prove and why

To get beyond our proud and tough
And learn when tenderly enough
I just want to be tenderly with you
I just want to be tenderly with you

When I was a little girl
My mother would brush my hair
Now I've learned to brush my own
And act like I don't care

And say, "It's not so hard to be so strong"
And do what's right
Even when they say it's wrong
Yet there days I'd just like to belong

Somewhere, I just want to be tenderly with you
I just want to be tenderly with you
Must we always hurt the ones we love
Does push always heave to come to shove
I just don't believe that's true

There's a hundred ways to guard your heart
If you really want to know
There's a thousand way to stay at arms length
If you really wish it so

But I have found that sure resolve
A mystery I'm going to solve
And a hard shell I will dissolve